To Live
from The Walk by Second To Sun
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lyrics
Even an art for this song makes one shiver, which is quite unusual for the modern culture that constantly polishes all the edges to make sure that heavy music fan is not stressed and visits the long awaited gig of N band that plays, for example – Death Metal.
Yet here we see a scary woman. The art is crudely drawn. It is scary.
The track is intertwined with many things, but one of them is feelings from your childhood. Child fears are always the strongest: once, when I was little I went to the countryside with my parents. I liked it and there were many different books to read. One of them was “Uncle Fyodor, Dog and Cat”. Just like every kid back in the 90s I knew this cartoon and the expectations for the book were high. But when I opened the book, my gaze was captivated by this image that you see in the beginning and on the art for this track. It came clear how it turned out to be mixed with child books later: Eduard Uspenskiy (the author) wrote many child stories in soviet Union, but he also wrote a lot of other things, and this art and the other one, that you can see on a cover to We Are Not Alone, were among “other things” he wrote.
The other thing that was basis for “To Live” is cinema art. Two movies that made significant impact on social themed lyrics and dramatic music were “To Live” by Yuriy Bykov and Vasiliy Sigarev.
And the third thing is a personal experience, which is summarized in last 9 lines of the lyrics.
Curious fact for those, who like this track the most: we were planning to feature guest vocals – first 8 lines were supposed to be sung by David from Psychonaut 4 (because of two last more socially themed on our album and artistic proximity to psychic disease themed art P4 are doing). I was introduced to P4 by Max (bass player of the band) and when I was composing “To Live”, I remember about P4 the same instant. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out – David went touring and in the end Gleb performed the whole song.
I’d like to note some black metal bands as an influence to this song, I remember that it was being composed during sleepless nights and lots of coffee. Spotify was on pop music and Billy Idol.
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When attempting to live,
Accept the anguish
Tearing and hitting
Abrading your hands raw
Throw out the memories
Before it's too late
Eyes on horizon
Where shines the second to sun
And let the sleeper awaken
Sun greeting him with a smile
Touching him with a bright claw
You'll miss it all
Wake up, don't sleep!
Sharp claw spends days
Gnawing on the spiral of life as best it can
Sentry of own fate
Don't bear the cross
Throw it off your back
Unable to write, giving the order
To sew a million people together
Having fucked control, forcing it in the noose
Jerking the vagina with a steel machine-gun
Having fucked a sister, drinking some ethanol
Unable to write, teaching how to live
Destroying a stranger's life for a career
That's what it is to live.
Стараясь жить
Готовься к муке
Рвать и бить
Стирать свои руки
По волчьи выть
Вставать и падать
Делать шаг вперед
В капкан загадок
Выбрось память прочь
Пока не поздно
Взор на небосклон
Ко второй от Солнца
Пусть же спящий проснется
Солнце ему улыбнется
Ярким когтем коснется
Ты все проспишь, проспишь, очнись!
Острый коготь как может
Днями спираль судьбы гложет
Своей участи сторож
Крест не неси, со спины сними!
Не умея писать давать приказ
Шить миллион людей на заказ
Выебав контроль в петлю усадить
Стальным пулеметом вагину дрочить
Трахнув сестру, этанола попить
Не умея читать жизни учить
Чужую судьбу ради карьеры сгубить
Вот, что такое жить!
Yet here we see a scary woman. The art is crudely drawn. It is scary.
The track is intertwined with many things, but one of them is feelings from your childhood. Child fears are always the strongest: once, when I was little I went to the countryside with my parents. I liked it and there were many different books to read. One of them was “Uncle Fyodor, Dog and Cat”. Just like every kid back in the 90s I knew this cartoon and the expectations for the book were high. But when I opened the book, my gaze was captivated by this image that you see in the beginning and on the art for this track. It came clear how it turned out to be mixed with child books later: Eduard Uspenskiy (the author) wrote many child stories in soviet Union, but he also wrote a lot of other things, and this art and the other one, that you can see on a cover to We Are Not Alone, were among “other things” he wrote.
The other thing that was basis for “To Live” is cinema art. Two movies that made significant impact on social themed lyrics and dramatic music were “To Live” by Yuriy Bykov and Vasiliy Sigarev.
And the third thing is a personal experience, which is summarized in last 9 lines of the lyrics.
Curious fact for those, who like this track the most: we were planning to feature guest vocals – first 8 lines were supposed to be sung by David from Psychonaut 4 (because of two last more socially themed on our album and artistic proximity to psychic disease themed art P4 are doing). I was introduced to P4 by Max (bass player of the band) and when I was composing “To Live”, I remember about P4 the same instant. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out – David went touring and in the end Gleb performed the whole song.
I’d like to note some black metal bands as an influence to this song, I remember that it was being composed during sleepless nights and lots of coffee. Spotify was on pop music and Billy Idol.
_________________________________________________________
When attempting to live,
Accept the anguish
Tearing and hitting
Abrading your hands raw
Throw out the memories
Before it's too late
Eyes on horizon
Where shines the second to sun
And let the sleeper awaken
Sun greeting him with a smile
Touching him with a bright claw
You'll miss it all
Wake up, don't sleep!
Sharp claw spends days
Gnawing on the spiral of life as best it can
Sentry of own fate
Don't bear the cross
Throw it off your back
Unable to write, giving the order
To sew a million people together
Having fucked control, forcing it in the noose
Jerking the vagina with a steel machine-gun
Having fucked a sister, drinking some ethanol
Unable to write, teaching how to live
Destroying a stranger's life for a career
That's what it is to live.
Стараясь жить
Готовься к муке
Рвать и бить
Стирать свои руки
По волчьи выть
Вставать и падать
Делать шаг вперед
В капкан загадок
Выбрось память прочь
Пока не поздно
Взор на небосклон
Ко второй от Солнца
Пусть же спящий проснется
Солнце ему улыбнется
Ярким когтем коснется
Ты все проспишь, проспишь, очнись!
Острый коготь как может
Днями спираль судьбы гложет
Своей участи сторож
Крест не неси, со спины сними!
Не умея писать давать приказ
Шить миллион людей на заказ
Выебав контроль в петлю усадить
Стальным пулеметом вагину дрочить
Трахнув сестру, этанола попить
Не умея читать жизни учить
Чужую судьбу ради карьеры сгубить
Вот, что такое жить!
credits
from The Walk,
track released August 19, 2018
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